Careers

User Experience Designer

Ingeniously simple user experience is Redgate's best competitive advantage. We're looking for experienced designers to make sure our products are as easy to use as possible.

Why be a user experience designer at Redgate Software?

Our UX designers are embedded in project teams. This means you'll work in collaboration with developers, technical writers, and product managers to define the user experience.

You'll be responsible for identifying key user needs, prototyping new features, running usability tests, and iterating your designs based on feedback from the team and from real users. You'll need to be confident enough to push for great user experience while accommodating the team's other priorities.

In this role, designing the right interaction is more important than pretty pixels, and you can count on the rest of the UX team to support you.

Currently we work with desktop apps and WinForms, but in time we’re likely to move to HTML 5, as we did with Source Control for Oracle.

Right now, we have a few roles available across the company:

In our database delivery team, to support a new suite of tools for database administrators and make continuous integration of SQL Server databases easy. The aim is to make our individual tools work better as a coherent suite.

In our core business, to maintain an excellent level of user experience as our tools grow and acquire new features to satisfy customer demand.

We want to help our users solve their problems. If you can help us, to solve our users problems, we want to hear from you!

How to apply

Do you want to work term time only?

We’re currently experimenting with the idea of setting up a term-time team. If you’re interested in the above role and like the idea of working term time only, send us an email: termtimeteam@red-gate.com.

You can also read our blog to find out more about Redgate’s search for a term-time team.

The Redgate Recruitment process

Application

Assessment

1st interview

2nd interview

Offer

Step 1. Application

Step one is your application. So write a letter and upload it on the page for the job you’re interested in. Tell us about yourself, your skills and experience, and talk about why you’d like to work at Redgate. Include a CV, or a link to your LinkedIn page, and if you'd like to show some of your work, attach your portfolio or point us to Stack Overflow or GitHub.

Step 2. Assessment

We’ll acknowledge your application straight away, review it and keep you updated on your progress. We might also email an assessment to complete, or invite you for a brief telephone interview. If we don’t think you’re suitable, we’ll inform you – and tell you why. We won’t let you down, we’ll try and help you.

Step 3. 1st Interview

Step three is an interview in our Cambridge office. We’ll talk about your work history, your covering letter or video, and any assessments you’ve completed. You might also be asked to do some work-based tests and, if you’re applying for a technical role, expect technical questions – we love talking tech.

Step 4. 2nd Interview

The second interview typically lasts two hours. You’ll be talking to different people, you may well meet people you’ll be working with, and we’ll allow time for you to ask questions. We don’t have a dress code at Redgate, by the way, so dress in whatever makes you comfortable.

Step 5. Offer

If we think you’d be great at Redgate, we’ll make an offer and iron out any details like relocation issues. If we don’t think you’ll fit in right away, we’ll tell you why. Some people have taken our advice, boned up their knowledge and come back a year later and got a job. It helps.

This is our typical recruitment process, though for some roles it might be a bit different.